Finally! Battlefield 1942...

This is great news! I just hope they clean the PC code up a little. I can't wait...nothing like runnign a tank into the enemy's base, jump out before they blow it and shoot whoever's left. Even if I don't capture the flag, my team will have captured just about every other post on the map by then...this'd be a worthy game of my PowerBook...
 
I hope they do Vietnam while they are at it. It is supposed to be a lot better and not quite as broken. (I hate how the firearms work in 1942, they just seem so weak compared to most other fps's. The vehicles were the only thing that made the game worth while)
 
HateEternal said:
I hope they do Vietnam while they are at it. It is supposed to be a lot better and not quite as broken. (I hate how the firearms work in 1942, they just seem so weak compared to most other fps's. The vehicles were the only thing that made the game worth while)
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It didn't sound like it from the article, but they are at least giving you the expansion as part of the pack, and Desert Combat sounds fun as well.
 
Perhaps if 1942 does well on the Mac (which I am positive it will, assuming piracy does not hurt it too bad), they will be quicker to release BF Vietnam. Hopefully...
 
I have BF 1942 on my Dell and mostly play the Desert Combat mod, but some of its maps are really buggy. When the Mac version comes out I plan on buying it and playing it solely on my G4. The less time I use that worthless M$ laptop, the better.
 
I wish they had a demo out or have one out before they release the game. I really want to know how it is going to run on the mac, it doesn't run all that well on most PCs, takes a hell of a computer if you are playing with any bots.
 
Whenever I play a multiplayer map, the ground has all these missing triangular polygon shapes here and there. You can see all the way to the bottom of the map and it looks as though it's water. It gets confusing and the enemy seems to appear and disappear when they walk on those spots. For sure, this bug better get fixed on the mac version.
 
Well I'm running BF1942 on a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop, that has a Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 64MB graphics card, 3Ghz P4 and 512MB of RAM. It might be the graphics card along with playing the game on a laptop that is causing the problem.
 
Since its an nVidia, it probably isn't a driver issue as I had initially thought. Its probably the game.
 
I'm personally very excited about this. A few months ago I took the plunge and bought a 12" Powerbook. The machine has been excellent but I keep a windows desktop for one reason. To play Battlefield 1942 (and download other kinds of crap). The computer I have handles BF perfectly and it seriously is the best game I've ever played in my opinion.

The thing that makes BF great is not stock Battlefield. Stock gets very boring after a while. It is the mods that make BF1942 what it is. Forgotten Hope, Desert Combat, and others. Forgotten Hope being my favorite, turns BF into what it should be. Very realistic WWII game with tons of vehicles, maps, and weapons. Forgotten Hope makes BF worth owning alone. Then there is Desert Combat which is a great mod. It is the BF mods that make the game really playable, almost like HL.

It is good that this should be cross playable between PC and Mac players. BF has a strong PC community. If this runs good on my powerbook, I plan on selling my desktop computer. That's my only worry right now. BF takes quite a bit of power to run, at least on PC machines. For one thing 512mb of ram is really necessary in general. Gfx card wise I have a Ti4200 (128mb) in my Athlon XP 1800+ rig and the machine in general can run the game top specs @ 1024x768. I can see a good G4 desktop or G5 rig handling this with no problem. If the game is ported well, I'm really hoping it'll play well on a 867mhz PB, or something along those lines. I think GFX card maybe the greatest setback for some of us.

Either way BF is an excellent game and with R2R is even better. Battlefield Vietnam is really really buggy and is overall nothing supremely better than BF1942. I hate when people bitch about wanting BF:V and how they're getting 42. Well most people will not be able to run BF1942 let alone V which is a goddamn resource hog. BFV is a little bit prettier but in general is nothing to write home about. Until they crush the bugs and there is a really good mod it's not even worth the money for the PC version.
 
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